Families can be seen climbing on board trains for the seaside back in the 1950s.
Here they are in Trinity Street Station in Bolton looking forward to their holidays.
Of course Bolton had two town centre stations in these days and various others dotted about the districts — many of which have since disappeared.
These were the days of steam.
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